The disclosure relates in some aspects to determining which beam parameters to use for wireless communication. For example, a wireless communication device may use one beam selection procedure for a non-persistent communication and another beam selection procedure for a semi-persistent communication. For the non-persistent communication, a transmission configuration signaled with control scheduling or a default transmission configuration may specify the beam configuration for the communication. For the semi-persistent communication, a recently used transmission configuration may specify the beam configuration for the communication. An apparatus may determine that a channel is persistently scheduled, determine a transmission configuration for a transmission based on a resource set associated with a transmission time, and receive information based on the determined transmission configuration. An apparatus may identify a resource set, acquire a transmission configuration of the resource set, and receive information on the channel based on the transmission configuration.